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Yitzhak’s murder had acted like a kind lightning strike, freezing Israelis in a mix of disgust over what had occurred and awareness of the dangers this brand of hatred and extremism posed. I was concerned the moment would be allowed to pass. My hope was that we could seize the op...

… 16, 1991, Misha got a call from Cheney. He said “h-hour” would be at seven that evening Washington time. Three a.m. in Israel. Though we hoped to stay out, I’d now spent months coordinating and overseeing preparations to ensure we could attack Saddam’s Scuds if necessary. By fa...

…, hilly confines of Lebanon. And it was in Lebanon, the following year, that the war came. It was different from any in Israel’s history. Arik was in charge. And I would become involved in ways which began to change the way I saw not only Arik, but the political and military dire...

…ingle word of reproach. In fact, he called Rabin’s government “illegitimate”, because it relied in part on the votes of Israeli Arab Knesset members. The day of the vote, the mob descended on the Knesset. Rabin had called a government meeting beforehand. When I got there, the cr...

…ize award) and to whom Epstein offers a ride back to Europe on his jet. The next morning, it’s Ehud Barack, the former Israeli Prime Minister and Israel, for breakfast. Barack is, over his omelet, able to defend both Obama and Putin. Then Kathy Ruemmler, who has just left her jo...

…hik and me, Benny Begin had decided to run on the right. Also in the contest was Knesset member Azmi Beshara, the first Israeli Arab citizen to seek national office. When we chose “One Israel” as the name of our campaign alliance, it was not meant just as a catchy phrase. Though...

…kely to have a major impact on the regional structure of power. The need to contain pressure from the United States and Israel, for decades the all-consuming concern of Syria's leadership, has suddenly been displaced by an explosion of popular protest highlighting urgent and long...

…, hilly confines of Lebanon. And it was in Lebanon, the following year, that the war came. It was different from any in Israel’s history. Arik was in charge. And I would become involved in ways which began to change the way I saw not only Arik, but the political and military dire...

…ingency.” Satloff's views were echoed by another tough-talking official at WINEP, former Ambassador Dennis Ross, a pro-Israel hawk who served as Obama’s top adviser on Iran during much of the president’s first term. “I think 2013 is going to be decisive,” Ross told the Los Angel...

…ot match the NSA’s state-of-the-art sensors, computers and productive partnerships with the cipher services of Britain, Israel, Germany and other allies, it could nullify the U.S. agency’s edge by obtaining its sources and methods from even a single contractor with access to Leve...

… that in 1967, when we captured Sinai, it was in order to have a buffer zone. We had /50 miles of sand between southern Israel and the canal. But when the Egyptians attacked in 1973, we defended the desert as if it was the walls of Jerusalem!” Since the 401st was one of two regu...

…turbing figure in the poll is the exponential rise in support among the Palestinian public for armed operations against Israel—S0.9 percent now view attacking Israeli positions in the current climate as a credible way to express their grievances and pressure the Israeli governmen...

when I began to devote considerable time and energy to the defense of Israel against efforts to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state. As I entered my seventh decade and looked back on my life’s work

especially regarding settlements.) This has earned me the title of “the Jewish State’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion” and “America’s most public Jewish defender.” It has also earned me the title of “Ziofascist

…n,” he said. And I had, even though Dan and I — and Rabin too — would soon face by far the most difficult challenge in Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians since our capture of the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 war. 225 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011696